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                <passage>
                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="D"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="dontas-bio-1" n="dontas_1"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Dontas</surname></persName></head><p>(<persName xml:lang="grc"><surname full="yes">Δόντας</surname></persName>), a Lacedaemonian
      statuary, was the disciple of Dipoenus and Scyllis, and therefore flourished about <date when-custom="-550">B. C. 550</date>. He made the statues which were afterwards placed in the
      treasury of the Megarians at Olympia. They were of cedar inlaid with gold, and formed a group
      representing the contest of Heracles with the river Acheloüs, and containing figures of
      Zeus, Deianeira, Acheloüs, and Heracles, with Ares assisting Acheloüs, and Athena
      supporting Heracles. The latter statue seems, however, not to have been part of the original
      group, but a separate work by Medon. (Comp. <bibl n="Paus. 5.17.1">Paus. 5.17. 1</bibl>.) The
      group in the pediment of the Megarian treasury, representing the war of the gods and the
      giants, seems also to have been the work of Dontas; but the passage in Pausanias is not quite
      clear. (<bibl n="Paus. 6.19.9">Paus. 6.19.9</bibl>; Böckh, <hi rend="ital">Corp.
       Inscrip.</hi> i. p. 47, &amp;c.) </p><byline>[<ref target="author.P.S">P.S</ref>]</byline></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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